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The most important thing is always be up to date in security topics. Make sure to do a run down through your resume and see which way you can best summarize your resume to the consultant you'll be interviewed by. Make sure to have a good conversation and show you're a pleasure to speak with.

Work at Cisco is not confined to a 9 to 5 clock, employees have flexibility to choose their hours but any employee/engineer learns best and flourishes in the company of other smart men and women around him/her so adjusting to your team dynamics is important. Other than that, a day in the life of ...

For succeeding as a software engineer would be to have solid grip over one of the programming languages. And be able to program in other languages as most of us believe if you know one object oriented programming language its pretty easy to catch up with others and get on speed when needed. I wou...

Interviewing for a delivery BDM role means you must be able to explain and present technical concepts to customers and sales teams. Work on your technical and presentation skills. Work on being concise no matter how complex the topic. Additionally for my role, it is helpful to understand Statemen...

For a Sales BDM role, it is primarily about sales experience. I would be ready to discuss business terms like NPV and IRR and if you have been in a commissioned role before, make sure you can talk intelligently about that experience, where you have succeeded and failed in the past, what did you l...

In terms of skills, since Cisco deals with networking and connecting people with each other, have some background knowledge on network programming (ex: sockets and configuring clients and servers) and network devices and concepts such as routers and switches, OSI model, TCP/UDP, etc. In terms of ...

For a Data Analyst Intern position, one should have a good background in networks and/or Information Technology. That doesn't necessarily mean that they need to know everything about various different protocols and devices, but they should at least be prepared to answer some basic questions. De...

Project Manager is not such a common role in a technology oriented organization like Cisco Systems. There may be PMs in variety of orgs within Cisco, however, I was one of a few within Technical Services. The mission for Technical Services was “to make it a place for customers to repeatedly choos...

PMs do get multiple opportunities to shine within their org at Cisco Systems. If the project result and impact is positive, expect to receive great appreciation and monetary benefits (this holds true for any company for that matter). Managers at Cisco are supportive, and encourage PMs to work on ...